NO Microsoft Office format as ISO standard

The network organized a collection of signatures in favor of a petition against the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard. Below is the text of the petition.

I ask ISO national members to vote AGAINST the ratification of the Microsoft Office OpenXML (OOXML) specification as an ISO standard for the following reasons:

1. The standard ISO26300 Open Document Format (ODF) already exists : additional standards increase costs for business, government, and citizens.
2. There is no compatible implementation of the OOXML specifications : Microsoft Office 2007 saves files in a special format that is different from the OOXML specification.
3. The specification is not complete , for example, there is no description of autoSpaceLikeWord95 and useWord97LineBreakRules .
4. More than 10% of examples in the specification do not match XML .
5. There is no guarantee that software that fully complies with the OOXML specifications will not suffer from patents or patent deductions .
6. The specification conflicts with other standards , such as ISO 8601 (Date and Time Representation), ISO 639 (Name and Language Representation Codes) or ISO / IEC 10118-3 (Cryptographic Hash).
7. There is an error in the spreadsheet format that does not allow you to enter dates before 1900 . This error applies to both the specification and Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007.
8. The specification was created without the involvement of expertise and expertise of stakeholders (manufacturers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), exclusively from Microsoft.

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